Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.